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No. 718,195. PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903.

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UNITED STATES ISAAC S. DEMENT, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BYMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER COMPANY, A COR-PORA'IION OF NEW JERSEY.

REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .Patent No. 718,195, dated January13, 1903. Application filed October 19,1901. Serial No. 79,274. Nomodel.)

T (0% whom it may concern: are placed far apart, there is such loose mo-50 Be it known that I, ISAAC S. DEMENT, a citition that onlya verylimited number of wheels zen of the United States, residing 'at Eastcan'be used. I have arranged the carrying- Orange, in the county ofEssex and State of pins so that they can be readily pushed aside NewJersey, have invented certain new and by the teeth of the wheel of upperdenominanseful Improvements in Registers, of which tion and yet fallinimmediately behind the op- 55 the following is a specification.crating-tooth, so that there is no lost motion My present invention isintended to render whatever, and I thus render the mechanism morecertain and accurate the carrying operapplicable to a register havingany desired ation in registering mechanisms in which each number ofregistering-wheels.

registering-wheelis adapted to be directly op- In the accompanyingdraWingsI have shown 60 erated to register a number of its own deinFigure 1 a top view of a series of registernomination and also to beoperated by the ing-disks and the operating-wheels thereof.register-wheel of the next lower denomina- Fig. 2 is a front view of themechanism. Fig. tion. In such mechanisms it is usual to have 3 is asectional view on the plane indicated a pin or project-ion on one memberadapted to by the dotted line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sec- 6 engageteeth or a series of pins or projections tional view, the plane ofsection being at right on the next higher member of the series of anglesto that of Fig. 3 and being indicated registering devices, so thatwhenever the by the dotted line 4 4, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 wheel oflower denomination revolves comare detailviews of the carrying-pin andwheel,

pletely once it will by engaging one of said showing two positions. 7 7oprojections rotate the wheel of upper denomi- 1 1 are a series ofregister-dials bearing nation one step. During most of therevolunumbers, as shown, which are caused to aption of the wheel oflower denomination its pear one at a time through an opening in thecarrying pin or projection is in such position front of the case. (Notshown.) The dials as not to interfere with the independent rotain themechanism shown are carried by a setion of the wheel of higherdenomination; ries of shafts 2, which have suitable mechanbut if thewheel of lower denomination be arism for individually turning them. Thisrested just at the point when the carryingmechanism may be of any usualor preferred 0 pin has been turned ready to engage the teethconstruction. I have here indicated at 3 only of the wheel of upperdenomination and if a part thereof. The separate dials are not then saidlatter wheel be turned its teeth, enonly intended to be individuallydriven, but gaging the carrying-pin, will shift the said to each drivethe dial adjacent to it on the pin and if it is rigidly attached to itswheel left when the dial of lower denomination has 5 will carry thewheel of lower denomination made a complete revolution. To this end onback away from its correct position. It has each shaft above the one tothe extreme right therefore been proposed to pivot the carryis fixed atoothed wheel 4, and on each of the ing-pin, so as to allow it to yieldwhen struck shafts, except the one to the extreme left, is in reversedirection by the teeth of the wheel mounted a pin 5, sliding in a diskor casing 6 4.0 of upper denomination; but with this arand maintained bya spring 7 in position to rangement of the pin it has been impossibleengage with the teeth of the wheel 4 of the 0 to secure the resultdesired on account of the next adjacent register-shaft. length of thearc traveled through in turning When one of the shaftsfor example, theupon its pivot, the result being that where tens-shaftis turned, itstoothed wheel4will 5 the teeth of the wheel of upper denomination turnfreely, pushing back the pin 5 of the are at the proper distance apartthe pivoted units-shaft without altering the position of 5 pin whenpushed aside by one tooth will on the latter, as shown in Fig. 6, andallowing its return swing interfere with the next folsaid pin to dropback to its normal position lowing tooth. Where to avoid this the teethimmediately in rear of the tooth on the saidtoothed Wheel, as shown inFig.5. Now when the units-Wheel is turned the pin 5 is in po sition toreceive the first impulse of motion of the toothed Wheel and give thetens-shaft a single-step motion, so as to carry one from the lower orunits shaft.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a registering mechanism, the combination of the Wheel 4 having aperipheral series of ratchet-shaped teeth; an adjacent wheel 6; a tooth5 having an oblique end and sliding out and in in an approximatelyradial groove in the said wheel 6 and a spring 7 tending to press thetooth constantly in projected posi- ISAAO S. DEMENT.

Witnesses:

C. N. FAIRCHILD, FOSTER J. HULL.

